Electoral district of The Murray (South Australia)

{{Short description|Former state electoral district of South Australia}}

{{For|the similarly named district of 1902–1985|Electoral district of Murray (South Australia)}}

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{{Infobox Australian electorate |

|name = The Murray

|state = sa

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|created = 1857

|abolished= 1862

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|namesake = Murray River

|area =

|class = Rural

|coordinates = {{coord|35|5|S|139|5|E|display=inline,title}}

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The Murray was an electoral district of the South Australian House of Assembly, the lower house of the bicameral legislature of the then colony of South Australia.{{cite web

|url=http://www.parliament.sa.gov.au/AboutParliament/From1836/Documents/StatisticalRecordoftheLegislature1836to20093.pdf

|title=Statistical Record of the Legislature 1836 to 2009

|publisher=Parliament of South Australia

|access-date=23 January 2014

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190311113513/http://www.parliament.sa.gov.au/AboutParliament/From1836/Documents/StatisticalRecordoftheLegislature1836to20093.pdf

|archive-date=11 March 2019

|url-status=dead

}}

The Murray was one of the original districts created in 1857 and abolished in 1862; part of its area was then included in Mount Barker.

{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50171549

|title=The Candidates

|newspaper=South Australian Register

|location=Adelaide, S.A.

|date=31 October 1862

|access-date=29 November 2013

|page=2

|publisher=National Library of Australia

}}